Featured Partner

IBM & SAS

For more than 30 years, SAS and IBM have collaborated to offer highly optimized solutions to more than 2,400 customers worldwide and recently renewed the SAS IBM Alliance agreement through 2015. The release of the SAS® Scoring Accelerator for DB2 marks a key milestone in that relationship.

IBM’s acquisition of both Netezza and Platform Computing underscores the growing interest in technologies for in-database, grid and high-performance computing. SAS will continue to partner with IBM from an R&D and sales perspective to support customer engagements.

Partner Member,
SAS Technology Program

This capability will enable our mutual customers to best exploit the advanced technology of IBM InfoSphere Warehouse, powered by DB2. With a tighter integration between IBM Data Warehouse software and systems and the SAS technology, our joint customers will be able to reduce the time required to build and deploy vital business models.

Bob Hoey, IBM General Manager, General Business and SAS Partnership Executive

Go-to-Market Capabilities

IBM Global Services

IBM has created a unique practice that specializes in SAS solutions. Consultants provide analytical services, systems integration and industry-specific e-business consulting expertise. Combining these services with SAS solutions for CRM, SRM and ERP exploitation, SAS and IBM customers can integrate the decision-support capabilities of SAS solutions with existing transaction systems and other IBM e-business applications.

Modernize and Grow on IBM Hardware

SAS and IBM work together to make sure that our joint customers gain the greatest performance and return on both their SAS software investment and hardware investment. By collaborating on the business side and IT side, both organizations see the value of the partnership, and our message together is stronger. The benefits of modernizing a customer’s environment include:

Expanding customer capabilities through the latest software and hardware upgrades and in-database and grid technology.

IBM's Software Group (SWG) segment offers middleware and operating systems software, such as WebSphere software to integrate and manage business processes; information management software for database and enterprise content management, information integration, data warehousing, business analytics and intelligence, performance management, and predictive analytics; Tivoli software for identity management, data security, storage management, and datacenter automation; Lotus software for collaboration, messaging, and social networking; rational software to support software development for IT and embedded systems; business intelligence software, which provides querying and forecasting tools; predictive analytics software to predict outcomes and act on that insight; and operating systems software.

IBM's Systems and Technology Group (STG) segment provides computing and storage solutions, including servers, disk and tape storage systems and software, point-of-sale retail systems, and microelectronics. The company's Global Financing (IGF) segment provides lease and loan financing to end-users and internal clients; commercial financing to dealers and remarketers of IT products; and remanufacturing and remarketing services. It serves financial services, public, industrial, distribution, communications and general business sectors. IBM was founded in 1910 and is based in Armonk, New York. ibm.com